Low-income families and individuals are invited to come to the Reno-Sparks Gospel Mission’s annual Christmas Day dinner and gift giveaway beginning at 4 p.m. Dec. 25 at the Mission, 355 Record St.
The free event features turkey, mashed potatoes, vegetables, yams, pie and beverage. The Mission is preparing to feed up to 1,200 people.
Everyone in attendance […]
The Reno-Sparks Gospel Mission announced it will open tonight (Dec. 19) a new emergency cold weather shelter that can take 20 more men out of the severe elements.
With nightly temperatures plummeting below freezing, the Mission will put up to 20 mats on the floor of its dining room for men wishing to come out of the […]
With the economy in full recession, thousands of poor and hurting men, women and children flocked to the Reno-Sparks Gospel Mission during the holiday season seeking help with food, clothing, shelter and other necessities.
The Mission served more than 25,000 meals between Thanksgiving and Christmas alone, while helping hundreds more with food assistance from its community […]
The newest Thrift Depot thrift store opens for savings on Sept. 11 at 5105 Sun Valley Blvd. in Sun Valley.
With over 5,000-square-feet of deals next to the Dollar Loan Center at First Avenue, the Mission’s new store is sure to please bargain hunters looking for sales tax-free deals on furniture, appliances, electronics, name-brand clothing and […]
What do you get when you mix a group of Southern-drawl “church ladies” from Texas with a bunch of street-hardened recovering female addicts from Reno?
Changed lives.
That’s exactly what happened over five days recently when 19 women from Spark Ministry in Dallas traveled to Northern Nevada to love and serve recovering addicts and staff at the […]
In Honor of Loved Ones, the Following Have Graciously Given so that Others May Have:
IN HONOR OF…
James McCartin by Scott McCartin
Grandma Duke by Marlene Jones
Dr. William S. Fast by Mildred Fast
Jean Maggiorini by Joyce Leet
Steven B. Peters by Virginia B Peters
Benjamin Clayton Barton by Marianne Morgan
Nicole Brunell by Helen Pate
Jeanne Argall by Claud Argall
Jane Marfisi […]
One of two new Thrift Depot thrift stores is now officially open for business at 1450 E. Prater Way in Sparks in the Hacienda Plaza Shopping Center (corner of Prater and Sparks Boulevard).
Like the other Thrift Depots, the new 3,500-square-foot store features new and used furniture, refrigerators, washers and dryers, televisions and other electronics, knick-knacks […]
